Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-31


making real estate investments in st. Paul
and Duluth.
The ringleaders OF mob which assaulted
the freight handlers at Newport News Fri
day night have been arrested.
Ex-Postmaster D. G. Potts, a prominent
citizen of Petersburg, is critically i'll with
disease OF the kidneys. He was postmaster
under Hayes administration.
The survey of the branch road of the Nor
folk and Western Railroad to the granite
quarries in Dindiddie county, near the Cen
trail Lunatic Asylum, has been completed.
The n. Y, P. ard N. r. r. Company have
leased the extensive Mccullough wharves in
Norfolk, and will at once erect extensive
warehouses for the accommodation of their
business.
DR.. It. D. Jennings, the recently appointed
postmaster OF Petersburg. received his com
mission on Saturday and will assume the
duties of the Office tomorrow, the lst OF
February.
COL Isaac Darlington. a prominent lawyer,
and the provost marshal of Richmond dur
ing the last two years of the war, died there
yesterday morning. The deceased was
about 60 years old.
For some time there have been living in
q log cabin in Dinwddie county four per.
sons, whose ages ranged as follows: "a, &c.
81 and sc years The two frat mentioned
were man and wife. A few days ago the
husband died.
1t is reported that Mr.. Henry Fink, vice
President of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road, will be made general
manager of the roads controlled by the
Richmond and West Point Terminal Com
pany.
Randolph Watson, who shot and killed
Joe Robertson st Hicksford Greenyille
county, last Monday, will be arraigned for
trial in the county court of Greenvile in few
days. Watson is also wanted in North Car
DINA, charged with two murders committed
in that State.
The case of Holmes r. Puryear, of Din
widdie county, under sentence of death for
wife murder, will come up next month in
the Court of Appeals on motion for new
trial Puryear is in the jail in Petersburg.
His old father has spent nearly all his mon
ey in efforts to save the life of his son.
A few weeks ago q scheme was set on
foot for the investment of q million dollars
in street railway lines and suburban i'm
provements in Richmond. The money for
this scheme was to be furnished by Rich
mond capitalists, but for the present ut
least the projectors of this enterprise will
hold it in obeyance.
The granary, barn and stables of Mr.. c.
H. Weldon, at Westbrook, opposite Bermu.
da Hundreds, on James river, were destroyed
by fire a day or two ago. Mr.. Weldon lost
one thousand bushels Of wheat, two hun
dred barrels of corn and all of his farming
implements. together with a large quantity
of forage. The loss will amount to about
$1,000.
In Virginia during the present year it is
said there will be not less than 500 miles of
railway under construction. At $40, 900 per
mile the whole will aggregate 100000 600.
The work will, Of course, not all be COM
pleted during the year, but very large
proportion of it will be. All this money put
into circulation is obliged to do great good
in reyiving business and bringing about bet.
ter times.
Colonel ]. Risque Hntter, for some time
clerk in the revenue Office in Petersburg,
has been promoted to the position vacated
by Il. D. Jennings, recently appointed post
master OF that city. John Whitehead sue
ceeds Colonel Hutter, and Thomas Nj. Har-
wood is appointed II clerk in the office Uice
Charles Il Jennings, resigned These ap.
pointments were all made by Collector
SHEPHERD it is said at the instance of Hon.
John W. Daniel.
Secretary Manning has transmitted to
Congress a statement in relation to certain
vouchers for services of employees on public
buildings for the period from June IA to June
go 1885, which remain unpaid on account
of the exhaustion ofthe appropriation for
pay ofassistaut custodiaps and janitors, and
recommending that provision be made
therefore in the deficiency bill The only
Virginian interested in this matter is Will
liam Miller, of this city, to whom is due
$23 81.
Il do not like thee DR.. Fell,